A Health Sciences degree will give you a strong foundation for many different professional positions in health care.
Our Health Sciences degree starts with foundational coursework, with the final two years focusing on the practical application and communication-centered components of health care-related careers.
Foundational courses are paired with courses centered around building the necessary communication skills to interact with patients. Classes such as psychology, medical ethics and culture and health will allow you to broaden your skill set and more effectively prepare you to treat patients.
Students are also encouraged to pursue a minor, and many minor in Spanish or Psychology.
A Health Sciences degree is perfect for students who enter college unsure of a specific career path, but know they want to do something in a health field. In introductory courses, practitioners from different health-related fields will come in to give you an inside look at different career paths.
With 36 elective credits within the program, students can tailor their preparation for their health career of choice.
There are several different tracks within this degree program, including:
Accelerated tracks are available for the Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy programs. Students in these programs complete their undergraduate and graduate degree in less time than it would take to pursue the degrees separately.
There is a pathway to this program from the Exercise Science, A.S. degree at Hudson Valley Community College.
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Recent Sage graduates are working as physical therapists, in medical device sales and in a prosthetics and orthotics lab.
A Health Sciences degree prepared these Sage graduates for success.
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Our students may receive assured acceptance or early admittance to:
Students have also been accepted to competitive medical schools including the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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